[PATCH 5.12 009/178] afs: Fix an IS_ERR() vs NULL check

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon Jun 21 2021 - 12:38:15 EST


From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit a33d62662d275cee22888fa7760fe09d5b9cd1f9 ]

The proc_symlink() function returns NULL on error, it doesn't return
error pointers.

Fixes: 5b86d4ff5dce ("afs: Implement network namespacing")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
cc: linux-afs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/YLjMRKX40pTrJvgf@mwanda/
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/afs/main.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/afs/main.c b/fs/afs/main.c
index b2975256dadb..179004b15566 100644
--- a/fs/afs/main.c
+++ b/fs/afs/main.c
@@ -203,8 +203,8 @@ static int __init afs_init(void)
goto error_fs;

afs_proc_symlink = proc_symlink("fs/afs", NULL, "../self/net/afs");
- if (IS_ERR(afs_proc_symlink)) {
- ret = PTR_ERR(afs_proc_symlink);
+ if (!afs_proc_symlink) {
+ ret = -ENOMEM;
goto error_proc;
}

--
2.30.2